we're inside the White House complex at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with the White House Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer. Dan, thanks for having us.

MR. PFEIFFER: Absolutely, Mike, good to see you.

MR. ALLEN: Your boss, the President of the United States, is one of the best communicators ever, and yet, in Year 1 he clearly didn't communicate what he wanted to about health care. As communications director what are you going to do to be sure he does that in Year 2.

MR. PFEIFFER: I think he started that process last night, where he spoke directly to the American people about why he took on the fight for health insurance reform, the fact that this was part of his fight

for middle-class families to relieve the economic pressures that they are feeling from rising premiums, and the insecurity of feel of thinking they can lose their healthcare at any moment.

He you know, he acknowledged that oftentimes during this past year the process of passing health insurance reform, the legislative process, the partisan bickering, the wrangling, the horse trading overwhelmed the substance of what is a what is a piece of legislation that would have great benefits for every American family. And so, we will, in Year 2, seek to rise above the maneuvering

and have a direct conversation with the American people about why it's good why it's good for folks who have insurance and for those who don't.

MR. ALLEN: Now, Dan, you traveled for the President with the President for two years during the campaign, very close him. You know his moods, you know what he's like. How is he taking all this

criticism that he's suddenly getting?

MR. PFEIFFER: One of his greatest qualities is an immunity to the short-term news cycle in this town and politics of one day you're up, the next day you're down; sometimes you're genius, sometimes you're an idiot. We have been through a lot, we have been geniuses a lot and idiots a lot in the three years since he started running for President. So he looks at this probably with a bit of a bemused expression on his face.